Outside Yourself Looking In

[Darkmist]

I have not experienced this for fifteen years or so, maybe more. Yet it has stuck with me. A sense that you are disconnected from your body, watching yourself from outside, looking in. (I cannot think of a better way to describe this). A ghost soul hovering over the body.

Reading this forum reminded me of it. As I stated, it has been years since I experienced this, but it's not something I'll ever forget.

Have any of you had this sensation before? It feels, (yes I know I said that word, douse me with holy water and string me with garlic) otherworldly.

[Solaris]

You mean in a different sense than looking at yourself objectively? I get a feeling like that when I am being the most objective, or trying to be. Do you mean something different?

[DeadSpace]

Yes...but it's been a very long time. Like you're outside yourself watching what you're doing. and yea...is a damn eerie feeling.

[Darkmist]

I mean completely disconnected, like I am watching me and what transpires around me. It sounds and is strange I know. Shaman is what comes to mind though I am not one in my opinion. Traveling outside the body is an apt description though. Maybe I'm just wall bouncing mad.

Yeah Dead, you've got it.

[Solaris]

I mean completely disconnected, like I am watching me and what transpires around me. It sounds and is strange I know. Shaman is what comes to mind though I am not one in my opinion. Traveling outside the body is an apt description though. Maybe I'm just wall bouncing mad.

Yeah Dead, you've got it.

You are talking about having an out-of-body experience. I used to be fascinated by this as a kid, and read all kinds of crap about it. I think it's mainly some sort of semi-conscious state of mind, in which you are highly aware, just not conscious in the common sense of the word.

[Darkmist]

Quite probably, and yet I question why few if any ever admit to this. Fear of being labeled crazy? Or is it an NT thing?

Semi conscious yes, but while I am awake and aware, which is odd. The last time I recall, I was in a car with my future husband, and then I was above me, watching me speak and act, totally outside the reality. Like bah, blah, blah on TV that you hear but don't digest, yet it was me and I knew it. Utterly odd and mind throttling.

[Franastan]

... and then I was above me, watching me speak and act ....

When you say watching yourself speak and act do you mean that you literally saw your body moving and acting on its own, as if you were standing outside of it?

I've experienced something like what you are talking about, that is, if I am truly seeing through to the meaning that you are trying to convey. For me it wasn't like literally watching myself, but more like my consciousness grew to the point in which I identified with it much more strongly than with my mind or body, as well as my entire life up to that point. So in a sense it was like I was outside of my body (and mind) looking in, but I wasn't literally looking at anything.

[Darkmist]

I was in the real world riding in a car watching the scenery go by and then I was watching myself do all of this as if I was watching a movie with me as one of the actors. I knew I was me, but I was removed from me. I saw myself, my future husband, the scenery etc accurately, yet I wasn't in the body of myself that I watched.

I knew I was outside of myself, my soul hovering about my material body. It lasted no more than 30 seconds to a minute and hasn't ever happened again.

Creeping weird as hell.

[Franastan]

That is amazing! :)

I guess what I experienced would be more aptly described as simple disassociation; what you're talking about seems to be of an entirely different order!

[lordrrr]

You guys are talking about O.O.B.E.'s, or out of body experiences. They arn't that difficult to obtain, and they are pretty creepy. I don't think I've ever done them though.

[Nausved]

I've never had one, but they happen to my mother frequently. I understand they can be induced in the lab by stimulation of certain parts of the brain, but the mechanism is not yet understood.

[DeadSpace]

I was in the real world riding in a car watching the scenery go by and then I was watching myself do all of this as if I was watching a movie with me as one of the actors. I knew I was me, but I was removed from me. I saw myself, my future husband, the scenery etc accurately, yet I wasn't in the body of myself that I watched.

I knew I was outside of myself, my soul hovering about my material body. It lasted no more than 30 seconds to a minute and hasn't ever happened again.

Creeping weird as hell.

That's it...you can see everything around you...that's what makes it so weird. Like you're yanked out for a short period of time, tried to rationalise it...but the fact i could see things around me that i couldn't have seen in my body, from a perspective that i couldn't achieve. Made any other possible explanation, like imagination, or severe dissociation unlikely. Which caused worry...what if i couldn't get back? Happened several times when i was younger, always unexpected. No set triggers or conditions, apparently random. I am relieved that they stopped, don't miss that experience at all.

[eternaltriangle]

I have felt this way when writing essays. I didn't even feel as if I was writing and I couldn't the details of what I had written. It was just this sort of automatic process, as my thoughts were transferred onto the screen, rather than being particularly conscious. This was back in high school, and everything I wrote got good grades.

[Blacklustre King]

I thought everyone felt that way all of the time, precisely why I refer to myself as a puppeteer, I steer myself more like a car then as though I was a whole being. It is like looking out over the dash board, you know your not part of the car but what happens to it happens to you if you crash.

Feel more like a ghost, which is not surprising to me at least. I have lived a strange life full of experiences most of you will probably never have or can relate to.

I can only say rationalizing the strange and understanding the illogical as logical is an acquired skill. What we are taught and theorize has nothing on real experience.

[Myrak]

I get these from time to time. They're not often very extreme, just a mild disconnectedness, coupled with the fact my consciousness seems to float away and my eyes seem to follow it. It feels kind of like a lucid dream, except I'm completely awake. I find the experience to be more exciting than creepy, to be honest.

[Motor Jax]

maybe its DPD (Depersonalization Disorder, which isn't really a "disorder")

[Danneh]

*Disclaimer: I do not believe a word that is about to be said*

I know quite a few Pagans, and that's what they describe as the Astral plane. It's where your soul separates itself from the body, often times to go off and look for answers to something bothering you. The Astral plane is apparently full of our thoughts, and things we create in our imagination.

[apotheon]

I have not experienced this for fifteen years or so, maybe more. Yet it has stuck with me. A sense that you are disconnected from your body, watching yourself from outside, looking in. (I cannot think of a better way to describe this). A ghost soul hovering over the body.

Reading this forum reminded me of it. As I stated, it has been years since I experienced this, but it's not something I'll ever forget.

Have any of you had this sensation before? It feels, (yes I know I said that word, douse me with holy water and string me with garlic) otherworldly.

Sounds like you astral projected. Astral projection can be achieved thru mediation. I do this from time to time. The vibrations and sensation from this are indescribable. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

[Franastan]

apotheon,

What sort of meditation do you use to induce this astral projection?

[apotheon]

Franastan,

I use concentrative meditation. I prefer lying down in bed when I do my meditations as opposed to sitting. Whenever I induce astral projection I concentrate on slowing down my breathing; at the same time I tell myself subconsciously that with each breath I will get lighter and lighter. I will get the vibration that I am floating. I can stay in this vibration or I can induce astral projection with one of my subconscious triggers.

[enfpchick]

this happens to ENFPs as well
or at least to me.

Sometimes i just watch reality unfold before me as if it was a movie.